Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor have never seen eye to eye, but that doesn’t mean the retired UFC star has given up on his rival. The past few years have seen McGregor featured in headlines for all the wrong reasons, including recently being found liable for sexual assault in a civil suit stemming from a 2018 incident in Dublin ( a verdict McGregor failed to appeal ). Even in his prime, McGregor earned a reputation as a “bad boy” for his outside-of-the-cage antics, and his feud with Nurmagomedov included a violent attack on a bus transporting the former UFC lightweight champion in April 2018 in which McGregor threw a moving dolly threw a window